The chairman of a House Oversight subcommittee is seeking answers after it took the Trump administration nearly nine months to impose legally mandated sanctions on Russia for its use of chemical weapons.
Late on August 1, the White House quietly announced that President Donald Trump had signed an executive order to impose a second round of sanctions on Russia for the poisoning of an ex-spy and his daughter on British soil in March 2018. The new sanctions, required under the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991, came months after the State Department confirmed that Russia was not in compliance with the terms of the law.
"According to former officials from the National Security Council, State Department, and Department of Treasury, these sanctions, while long-overdue, are 'insignifcant' and will 'put barely a scratch' on the Russian economy," Lynch wrote."Your Department has claimed on multiple occasions that 'we condemn in the strongest possible terms the use of chemical weapons anywhere, by anyone, under any circumstances.
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